Enable Information Rights Management

A SharePoint Online tutorial by Peter Kalmström

Files
and e-mails are often the weakest security points in an
organization's security system. When documents without any
inside protection are sent as e-mail attachments or shared
on memory sticks, they are accessible to agreessors, and
e-mails without protection can be forwarded outside the
organization and constitute a risk. That is why you need
Information Rights Management, or IRM.

If you enable IRM in Office 365, you can limit the actions
users will be allowed to take on as well e-mails as files
that have been downloaded from SharePoint libraries. The
IRM settings can for example allow users to read files but
not print or copy them.

IRM is an important Office 365 selling point, because it
is much easier to implement IRM on Office 365 than it is
for on-premise installations. In the first demo below Peter
Kalmstrom, CEO and Systems Designer of kalmstrom.com Business
Solutions, shows how to enable basic IRM for Office 365.
In the second demo he shows how to enable IRM in a SharePoint
document library.

Enable Basic Information Rights Management for Office
365

Open the Office 365 Admin Center.

In the left pane, open the Settings and select ‘Services & add-ins’.

Click on the link ‘Microsoft Azure Information Protection’. Now you will be directed to the Azure management site, where you can find links to more information about IRM.